Introduction to Dam Safety

Dam Safety can be used to routinely inspect dams, manage work assignments, and monitor inspection programs.

Dams are integral to communities and critical to managing watersheds. They can be privately or publicly owned but the responsibility to inspect them falls on the government authority they fall within. Routine dam inspections minimize the risk of failure and impact to downstream structures, ecosystems, and most importantly, inhabitants. Dam safety authorities share operating manuals with dam owners and use them to encourage common maintenance responsibilities. But dams need to be inspected continuously to ensure they are well maintained. While many dam safety authorities maintain a centralized database of historical dam information, they struggle to accurately access the current condition of these dams. Streamlining inspection programs ensures dams are routinely inspected and safety issues identified before an incident occurs.

The Dam Safety solution delivers a set of capabilities that help state and local governments conduct routine dam inspections and understand asset condition.

Deploy the solution

This solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Dam Safety requires the following:

  • ArcGIS Enterprise
  • ArcGIS Pro 3.2 or later
  • ArcGIS Survey123
  • ArcGIS Survey123 Connect

Information products

Dam Safety includes the following information products:

ItemDescriptionMinimum user type

Dam Inspection Dashboard

An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by dam safety staff to review fieldwork activity and monitor the progress of dam inspection programs

Viewer

Dam Inspection Survey

An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by mobile workers to inspect upstream reservoirs, downstream hazards, and other relevant information at dam sites

Mobile Worker

Dam Safety

An ArcGIS Pro project used by mapping technicians to inventory dam information (for example, location and specifications) and assign dam sites to mobile workers

Creator

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get a solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

VersionDescription
1.1
  • ArcGIS Workforce Classic project was removed and assignment functionality was replaced with the ArcGIS Survey123 inbox.
1.0
  • First release of Dam Safety